Special Session MLIS Course Rotations
The SJSU School of Information will try to follow the proposed course rotations outlined below. However, actual schedules are subject to change and dependent on enrollment trends and budget. Classes may be offered in variable units (one unit, or two units or three units).
Be sure each semester to check out MARA course offerings. MLIS students can also take MARA courses. You do not need to meet MARA prerequisites.
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Summer |
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Topics by Course and Semester
INFO 220
INFO 220 focuses on resources for specific user groups as well as subject resources. Classes may be offered in variable units (one unit, or two units or three units). We will try to be responsive to a changing information landscape.
- Over Fall and Spring
- Digital Humanities (every Fall)
- Data Services in Libraries (every Spring)
- Legal Resources (every Spring)
- Maps and GIS (every Spring)
- Medical (every Fall)
- Older Adults (every second Fall)
- Readers Advisory Genres and Techniques (every Fall)
- Visual Resources Curation and Art Librarianship (every Fall)
- Summer:
- Data Services in Libraries
- Consumer Health Librarianship
- LGBTIQ Resources and Services (every second summer)
- Music
INFO 246
- Fall:
- Big Data Analytics and Management
- Building Web Applications with PHP and JavaScript
- Graphic Design for Librarians
- Python
- Text/Data Mining
- XML and XSLT
- Spring:
- APIs
- Building Web Applications with PHP and JavaScript
- Information Architecture
- Information Visualization
- Python
- Summer:
- Graphic Design for Librarians
- MySQL in Depth
- Web 2.0 and Social Media
INFO 267
- Fall
- Controversial Literature (typically within a 2 year cycle)
- Spring:
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- Intellectual Freedom and Youth
- Outreach Services to Teens and Children
- Summer:
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- International Children’s Literature
INFO 281
Topics will vary and will be responsive to a changing information landscape but will be drawn from the following. Classes may be offered in variable units (one unit, or two units or three units). We will try to be responsive to a changing information landscape.
- Adult Services (each Fall and Spring)
- Building a Critical Culture: Information Ethics, Diverse Communities, and Critical Librarianship (each summer)
- Civic Literacy (each Spring)
- Cultural Competencies for Information Professionals (each fall and spring)
- Digital Copyright (every summer)
- Exploring the Digital Content Lifecycle (each Fall)
- Emerging Technologies and the Impact on the Information Experience (each Fall)
- Fostering Accessibility in the Library (every Spring)
- Global Principles – Local Libraries (each Spring and summer)
- Graphic Novels (each summer)
- Indigenous Cultural Institutions and Practices of Librarianship (every Fall and Spring)
- Intercultural Communication (each Fall and Spring)
- Metadata (every Fall, Spring, Summer)
- OER (each summer)
- Outreach and Equity (every Fall)
- Scholarly Communication and Publishing: Access, Intellectual Property, and Impact (each summer)
- Serving Homeless Patrons In Public Libraries (Spring and summer)
- Teaching Life Skills in the Public Library (every Fall)
- Well Being and Librarianship (every Fall)
INFO 282
Topics will vary and will be responsive to a changing information landscape but will be drawn from the following. Classes may be offered in variable units (one unit, or two units or three units). We will try to be responsive to a changing information landscape.
- Change Management (each spring)
- Communications Strategy for Information Services (every summer)
- Conflict Management (every Fall and Spring)
- Crisis Management Planning, Communications and Deployment (every summer and spring)
- Digital Assets Management (each Fall and Spring)
- The Emerging Future: Technology Issues and Trends (each Spring)
- Financial Management (every Spring)
- Grant Writing (each Fall and Spring)
- Information Vendor Landscape (each Spring)
- Knowledge Management (each Spring)
- Marketing Your Skills in a Networked World (every Fall)
- Political Advocacy (each Spring)
- Prison Library Management (every summer)
- Project Management (each Fall and Spring)
- Social Crisis Management: The Emerging Role of the Information Professional ( every Fall)
- Sustainability (every Fall)
- Using Social Media for Competitive and Company Research (every summer)
- Well Being and Librarianship (every Spring)
INFO 284
- Fall:
- Curating Exhibitions from Archival Collections
- For Electronic Records: See MARA 211: Access, Storage, and Retrieval of Records and Information
- History of Books
- Rare Books
- Reference and Information Services in Archives
- Tools, Services, and Methodologies for Digital Curation
- Spring:
- Digital Curation
- Digitization and Digital Preservation
- EAD
- Film Collections and Archives
- For Electronic Records: See MARA 249: Management of Digital Data, Information, and Records
- History of Libraries in the US
- Managing Photographic Collections
- Medieval Manuscripts: Genres rotating with Incunabula (Early Printed Books)
- Reference and Information Services in Archives
- Summer:
- Genealogy
- Oral History
- Photographic Preservation
- Special Collections
Also see MARA 284 classes -up to 9 units can be counted towards the MLIS.
INFO 285
We will offer a variety of foci -selected from:
- Academic Library Research
- Action research
- Evaluating services and programs
- General Overview of Research Methodologies
- Historical research
- Survey Research
- Unobtrusive Research
- Youth Services
INFO 287
Topics will vary and will be responsive to a changing information landscape. Classes may be offered in variable units (one unit, or two units or three units).
- Adult Literacy (every summer)
- AI, Data and Ethics (every Fall and Spring)
- AI in the Library (every Fall)
- Classification (every fall)
- Collecting and Analyzing Data for Evidence Based Decisions (Fall and Spring)
- Design Thinking (every Spring)
- Digital Libraries (every summer)
- Generative AI Prompt Engineering for Librarians (every Fall and Spring)
- Hyperlinked Library (every Fall)
- Innovation and Participatory Practice in Libraries (to include Maker Spaces) (every Fall)
- Libraries, Xtended Reality, Generative AI, and the Metaverse: What Does it Mean for Libraries Now and in the Future? (every summer)
- Library Services in the Digital Age (every Spring)
- Linked Data (every Fall)
- OER (every summer)
- Problem Solving with Data: Part 1 (every Fall)
- Problem Solving with Data Part II (every Spring)
- RDA (every Spring)
- Serials (every Fall)
- STEM in Libraries (every summer)
- Subject Analysis (every Spring)
- User Experience (every year)